Nuke Info Tokyo No. 212 (January/February 2023)

Hokkaido Peace Forum Co-Director, Yamazaki Kazuhiro (left), hands a petition to Suttsu’s Deputy Mayor, Tanaka Tsukasa (right), demanding that Suttsu Town end the process to host a nuclear waste dump by refusing to proceed to the next step which is accepting the “Overview Survey.” See article on the symposium which followed in this edition of NIT

Nuke Info Tokyo is a bi-monthly newsletter that aims to provide English speaking friends with up-to-date information on the Japanese nuclear industry and the movements against it. 

Editor: Caitlin Stronell

Translators: Pat Ormsby, Tony Boys, Karoji Sumie

Proofreaders: Tony Boys, Yamaguchi Yukio

CONTENTS:

Reviving the Nuclear Dream?  By Caitlin Stronell and M. V. Ramana

Voices from Around the Pacific Rim Oppose Oceanic Release of Fukushima Daiichi Contaminated Water  By Ban Hideyuki 

Government and Nuclear Power Industry Ignoring Engineering Principles: Reactor manufacturers’ advanced pressurized water reactor farce is exposed   By Goto Masashi

High-Level Radioactive Waste Symposium: “To Avoid Progression to the Overview Survey”   By Takano Satoshi 

News Watch    Injunction to Halt Mihama Unit 3 Operation Rejected / Continuing Delays for Expected Completion of Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant / MOX Fuel Arrives at Takahama NPP / JAEA to Provide Basic Design for Poland’s HTGR / TEPCO Criminal Proceeding: Tokyo High Court’s Unjust Verdict

Who’s Who: Kusachi Taeko, an ‘ordinary person’ doing extraordinary things  By Ogata Keiko